Chicanas in charge
Subtitle: Texas women in the public arena
By: José Angel Gutiérrez, Michelle Meléndez, and Sonia Adriana Noyola.
Contributors: Meléndez, Michelle.; Noyola, Sonia Adriana.
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780759105607; 9780759105614
Subjects: Women in politics -- Texas -- Biography; Mexican American women -- Texas -- Political activity -- Case studies; Mexican American women politicians -- Texas -- Biography; Women civic leaders -- Texas -- Biography; Women in public life -- Texas -- Biography; Leadership in women -- Texas -- Case studies
Genres: Biography.; Case studies.
Description: "No state has a greater density of Chicano community leaders and politicians than Texas does. This study examines the lives and politics of a distinguished group of Chicana women who have risen to positions of power. The authors profile women who serve in various public capacities - federal judges, candidates for Lieutenant Governor, a statewide chair of a political party, and members of school boards and city and county governments. The diverse careers of these women offer rare glimpses of the kinds of struggles they face, both as women and as members of the Chicano community. Chicanos in Charge will be of great value to those interested in gender studies, political science, local government, public policy, oral history, biography, and Chicano studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269).
Table of contents: title: Adelitas: the warrior trail blazers; title: The Chicano movement activists; title: Puentes y lazos: the Hispanic connectors; title: 21st century entorchas/ torchbearers.